Dr. Alicia Robb is a Senior Economist with Beacon Economics, specializing in minority and women’s entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial finance, firm dynamics, lending discrimination, government procurement, and economic development. Dr. Robb is also a Senior Research Fellow with the Kauffman Foundation and the Principal Investigator on the Kauffman Firm Survey. She is the Founder and President of the Foundation for Sustainable Development, an international development organization working with local nonprofit organizations in six countries throughout Latin America, East Africa, and South Asia. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializing in econometrics and economic development. She has previously worked as a staff economist for an economic consulting firm and as an economist for the Office of Economic Research in the Small Business Administration and for the Division of Research and Statistics at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Her main interests are entrepreneurial finance, firm dynamics, and minority and women’s entrepreneurship. She has also worked on issues such as discrimination in lending, community development, microfinance, and small business development. She has taught a variety of courses in economics at universities in the D.C. and Bay areas, as well as abroad.